... 2026 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Secondary schools Student voices Educational reform Secondary colleges Australian Capital Territory In Australia in 1970, education in the Australian Capital Territory, seat of the Commonwealth government, was still...

... single‐sex, with special attention to academic and social curricula. Design/methodology/approach The study investigates memories of a particular moment in the history of secondary schooling in NSW before the establishment of mass secondary education. The authors utilise theoretical concepts from...

... 2012 Australia Secondary schools Curricula History Teaching Education National curriculum Study Global Australia is preparing for the introduction of its first ever national school curriculum. One step in this process was the publication, in 2009, of a Shape of the Australian...

... and the newly‐implemented senior secondary school standards‐based assessment system. Design/methodology/approach The contestation of the curriculum is a highly political process that works to reproduce social class patterns and keep particular elite groups in control of the official curriculum. This paper...

... to 1950 commented: We were expected to bring […] children up to a standard where they could go onto secondary school […] Whenever we had a bright child or reasonably bright even, we would recommend them for a scholarship and consequently a lot of them got away to the Ma¯ori colleges with excellent...